The Music of the Primes : Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters
Marcus du Sautoy
480 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1841155799
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2003
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A history of mathematics from the cutting-edge of present-day research, this book tells the story of the most idiosyncratic and most fundamental numbers in pure mathematics, the primes. When counting, primes (numbers only divisible by one and themselves) appear without any reason or rhythm. To a non-mathematician this may s